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2005
The winner of the 2005 Distinguished Dissertations was:
Implicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval
Ryen White
University of Glasgow
Supervised by Professors Joemon Jose, Ian Ruthven and Keith van Rijsbergen
Ryen William White is a research associate in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His research interests lie in interactive information retrieval, information seeking behaviour, and the evaluation of search systems with humans and simulations. Ryen has published over 30 conference and journal articles (including two that received "best paper" awards), has served on numerous programme committees, and is guest editor of a special section of the Communications of the ACM entitled "Supporting Exploratory Search", due for publication in April 2006.
Runners up
E-connections and Logics of Distance
Oliver Kutz
University of Liverpool
Supervised by Professor Frank Wolter
Oliver Kutz is a Research Associate in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He is working on the logical foundations of the semantic web, modal and description logics, as well as philosophical logic. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Frank Wolter, and an M.Sc. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Humboldt University at Berlin in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Marcus Kracht.
Approximate Methods for Propagation of Uncertainty with Gaussian Process Models
Agathe Girard
University of Glasgow
Supervised by Professor Roderick Murray-Smith
After a master in Geophysics, Agathe Girard started her PhD in Mathematical Modelling at the University of Glasgow. Her research has focused on developments of the Gaussian Process model and the modelling of non linear dynamic systems. She now works for the HBOS Group.
Hermes: A Scalable Event-Based Middleware
Peter R. Pietzuch
University of Cambridge
Supervised by Prof. Jean Bacon
Peter Pietzuch is a post-doctoral fellow in the Systems Research Group with the Computer Science Department at Harvard University. His main research interest focusses on large-scale distributed systems, including stream-processing systems, publish/subscribe systems, and peer-to-peer overlay networks. Prior to joining Harvard, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, working on event-based middleware architectures under the supervision of Prof. Jean Bacon. In 2000, he obtained a B.A. in Computer Science, also from the University of Cambridge.
The Fresh Approach: functional programming with names and binders
Mark R. Shinwell
University of Cambridge
Supervised by Professor Andrew Pitts
Mark Shinwell studied for his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Queens' College in the University of Cambridge. Subsequently he completed a PhD at the same institution under the supervision of Professor Andrew Pitts. His interests lie in the design, compilation and formal semantics of programming languages.
Reasoning with Constraint Diagrams
Gem Stapleton
University of Brighton
Supervised by Professor John Howse, Dr John Taylor and Dr Ali Hamie
Gem received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Brighton, where she also undertook her PhD and is now employed. She holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and her research interests lie in the general area of diagrammatic logics. She is particularly interested the mathematical properties of such logics and in developing techniques that allow theorem provers to find diagrammatic proofs.
Ontology based Visual Information Processing
Christopher P. Town
University of Cambridge
Supervised by Dr John Daugman and Dr David Sinclair
Chris Town is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College in the University of Cambridge. He completed undergraduate and doctoral studies in computer science at Trinity College, Cambridge. His PhD was sponsored by AT&T Labs Research through an Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Prior to starting his PhD, he carried out research at AT&T Labs in Cambridge and in the USA. His main research interests are in the areas of computer vision, information retrieval, and machine learning.